A recent article from The Wall Street Journal states that according to The U.S. Energy Department, “buildings are responsible for 39% of our energy consumption and a similar percentage of greenhouse-gas emissions.” That’s huge! Now how do we fix it? The Wall Street Journal asked four architects to design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living. In essence, forget the unnecessary luxuries that we’ve been trained to need and take the big step to do right by Mother Earth.
Check out the WSJ article!
Here’s a snippet:
“This is a time of re-examining values, re-examining what we need…We are re-examining the idea of home.”
